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Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics These seminars are free and open to the public For more information, visit our website: mmg.natsci.msu.edu Seminars are weather permitting. Please check our Twitter, @MSU_MMG for updates each week. Spring 2020 Seminar Series Tuesdays at 4:10pm in 1415 BPS January 7 th Dr. JoAnne Flynn University of Pittsburgh Protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis January 14 th Dr. Melanie Blokesch Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Molecular mechanisms at play in Vibrio cholerae’s environmental lifestyle January 21 st Dr. Janet Jansson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Multi-omics of soil microbiomes February 25 th Dr. Philip Kranzusch Harvard Medical School cGAS-like enzymes in human immunity and bacteria–host signaling February 18 th Dr. Susanne Wells Cincinnati Children’s Hospital How to study Fanconi anemia in the age of personalized medicine February 11 th Dr. Alison McBride National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease Location, location, location: how papillomaviruses persist February 4 th Dr. Julia van Kessel Indiana University Quorum sensing gene regulation: How Vibrio harveyi turns on the light January 28 th Dr. Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins On Virulence March 10 th Dr. Murat Eren University of Chicago Mosquitoes, bacteria, and the hidden gems of the mobilome: a high-resolution microbial 'omics story April 28 th MMG Awards Reception Undergraduate & Graduate Students Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, 3pm April 21 st Michelle Korir University of Minnesota Early Career Award Lecture April 14 th Dr. Joseph Zackular University of Pennsylvania Pathogen-microbiota interactions during Clostridium difficile Infection April 7 th Dr. Katherina Ribbeck Massachusetts Institute of Technology Finding a Niche – Microbial Colonization of Host Mucosal Barriers March 31 st Otto Cordero Massachusetts Institute of Technology A reverse ecology approach to infer the functional units of microbiomes March 24 th Dr. Julie Pfeiffer UT Southwestern How gut microbes enhance enteric virus infection March 17 th Dr. Ralph Isberg Tufts University Brubaker Lecture
